Patents by Inventor Helmut SCHOENHOFF

Helmut SCHOENHOFF has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240090736
    Abstract: A self-propelled floor processing device includes a base body, a driving device, and an obstacle detection device for detecting a collision between the floor processing device and an obstacle, wherein the obstacle detection device has a bumper arranged in a protruding position on the base body, as well as at least one impact sensor allocated to the bumper. The impact sensor is configured to detect a displacement of the bumper relative to the base body. In order to create an obstacle detection device that functions optimally independently of a position and direction of a force acting from outside, the bumper is mounted to the base body via at least one swivel joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut SCHOENHOFF, Utz VAHLDIEK
  • Publication number: 20230157508
    Abstract: An extraction interface for connecting a first flow channel to a second flow channel in an airtight manner has a main body with an extraction opening. The extraction opening has an opening plane and a sealing element that surrounds the extraction opening in the circumferential direction. In order to improve a sealing effect of the sealing element, the sealing element is an elastic bellows, which when viewed in a cross section oriented orthogonal to the opening plane has in a relaxed state of the sealing element an E-shape with at least one bending point, two legs that meet in the bending point and two leg end regions adjoining the legs. The leg end regions point radially outward in a direction facing away from the extraction opening and are connected to two locally separated connecting points of the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Bjoern SOIKA, Helmut SCHOENHOFF